Hotel Gouverneur Sainte-Foy Quebec City

Happy Birthday Jan! Zum seinem 35igsten Geburtstag durfte Jan in einem wunderbar warmen Bett aufwachen. Ist das nicht schön?! Nach einem Frühstück, welches wir uns im Motel gönnten, schauten wir nach unserem Camper.

Die Scheiben waren gefroren! Kein Wunder bei -7 Grad!!! Jan musste leider mit einem Kärtchen die Scheibe kratzen! Das kommt Priska sicher bekannt vor ...

... here, and the surrounding architecture is glorious. The first colony in this region was built at Cape Diamond near the St. Lawrence River. This scenic area was home to traders, seamen, and merchants until the mid-1700�s, when a fire destroyed nearly everything. Thereafter, this portion of the city was rebuilt into a warehouse and wharf area, as the locals moved into much safer homes beyond the ...

Allo les ami(e)s,

Comme plusieurs d'entre vous le savent déjà, cette année, c'est la Chine ! Je pars le 12 octobre avec Jacques, Daniel (mon frère) et Julie (ma belle-soeur). Vous pourrez suivre mon voyage grâce à ce blog ! Donc, ceci est un petit test pour valider que vous recevez bien mes envois.

A bientôt !

Hélène

... a good view of that most famous Canadian battleground - the Plains of Abraham, nowadays a peaceful park with trees and grass. Hard to believe that this was the location of the bloody battle which was so instrumental in the future of Canada.
We had many restaurants to choose from for lunch in the old city. The one we finally chose turned out to be a wonderful experience. We were tended to by a flawless waiter who never ‘missed a beat’. I can’t remember ever receiving ...

... were all looking a bit worse for wear! However they were very pleasant and sociable. Graham told us that he is in the process of moving to Calgary to be with his girlfriend and will be leaving the East where he grew up.

Clark (our B&B host) told us that it will take us about 6 hours to get to our next destination - Quebec City, so after a good breakfast we headed North towards the top of New Brunswick and the Quebec border.

Stopped at Hartland, New ...

... personnes à Paris, Lile et Brest, mais malheureusement ça ne sera pas cette fois !! Peut-être l'année prochaine...Après avoir fait les vendanges.. Tiens! Tiens! Pas mauvais comme idée ça!!

Sincèrement, je ne pense pas trop perdre mon temps devant un ordimachin pendant mon périple!

Mais,qui sait je vais peut-être avec un p'tit 5 minutes pour poster quelques stupidités ...

... French cuisine, as well as the biggest winter carnival in the world. After checking into our lovely little boutique hotel, we braved the snowy, cobbled streets and found a restaurant on Rue St Louis, the main street near our hotel for dinner. Afterwards we walked through one of the gates in the walled fortifications to the Ice Palace at Hydro Place, where there were also some interesting snow sculptures. Just opposite was the magnificent Parliament building. We walked down ...

A sort of impromptu weekend in the provincial capital came around when one of the English teacher's at Mikaly's school (the Polyvalente - 14-16 year olds - in St Georges) told him he was taking his 7 seater car to QC for the weekend, and would we like a lift? Of course we would! After a mad rush on packing, we ended up in the car and calling round other assistants in the area. It didn't take long for us to ...

... this meal, but the others really weren't very enthusiastic and it would probably be best to try one of these meals somewhere else for the first time anyway). So we went to the mall, planning to come back quickly so that we could join up with some others who were going to 'village de valeur' to buy outfits for the 80s disco that night. Unfortunately it started raining really heavily as we walked to the mall, so we decided just to stay there for that ...

... temps relativement court, j'ai réussi à couvrir une grande distance qui m'étonne encore maintenant. Je me suis donc rendu vers le célèbre château Frontenac via la rue Saint-Louis (l'une des plus belles de la vieille capitale, ce qui n'est pas peu dire), puis j'ai rapidement déambulé sur la terrasse Dufferin, avant de remonter vers l'ambassade américaine, puis vers la rue Saint-Louis "again", pour revenir sur Saint-Ursule et ...